Come February 1 of next year, Fannie Mae will temporarily halt bulk transfers of mortgage servicing rights as it upgrades its reporting systems, a change the industry has known about for quite some time, but one that still promises to cause headaches. The moratorium runs from Feb. 1, 2017, through March 31, according to Fannie lender letter LL-2016-01, at a time when seller-servicers are implementing new investor reporting requirements. The government-sponsored enterprise is advising servicers that if they want to avoid disruption they “should not propose post-delivery servicing transfer effective dates that fall during” the two months. According to investment bankers that buy and sell servicing rights for a living, the moratorium can be worked...
Low-downpayment programs introduced by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac almost two years ago have been slow to gain traction. According to an Inside Mortgage Finance analysis of mortgage-backed securities data, the two government-sponsored enterprises purchased $10.31 billion of purchase mortgages with loan-to-value ratios of 96 to 97 percent during the first nine months of 2016. However, nearly half of that came in the third quarter, which saw a 52.7 percent jump from the previous period. Bob Ryan, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s division of conservatorship, said...
Don’t expect any rapid changes to the charters of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. After all, GSE reform is hard. At least that’s the message of some market watchers.
In a Trump administration it's possible Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would would face more competition and have less of an economic edge over non-GSE rivals, said Cowen & Co.
Wells Fargo once again ranked first among all agency sellers with $17.6 billion sold to Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie. Quicken was second with $8.46 billion.
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